This is a good description I tried to keep my bias out of:

The movie studio decided it would be a good idea to make a trilogy.

They hired JJ Abrams (a competent director) and Lawrence Kasdan (OT screen writer very familiar with Star Wars lore) to direct and write the first movie - The Force Awakens.

In that movie they set up a bunch of story lines and cliff hangers and new characters to be fleshed out as the trilogy continues. And they spend two years via advertising and interviews hyping up those story lines and all the cool new stuff in the trilogy.

The movie studio then hired a completely different writer and director for the second movie and gave him complete autonomy to do whatever he wanted with no regard for the first movie or any over arching story lines in the trilogy.

That director then quite literally from the first scene to the last scene of the movie systematically decided to throw away every single plot line from the first movie of the trilogy because the director didn't feel like following them and further he decided to just say frick it and not pay attention to any established Star Wars universe lore because he didn't give a shite about the fans or the established IP. He's directly quoted as confirming these in interviews. I didn't make that up.

About a third of the film is dedicated to two terrible characters in a side plot that makes no sense and ultimately fails and has nothing to do with the plot. Those characters happen to be black and Asian.

The movie is a disjointed mess, it's basically ruined the entire trilogy and wrecked all the great things The Force Awakens had brought to the table.

It had a terrible script, a barely discernable plot, and every single action sequence had an ex machina plot armor moment that took you out the film.

The director is an outspoken SJW, and it's easy to see the themes and anger over the perceived SJW aspect, but people should really be mad at the studio's decision to hire Johnson in the first place and Johnson's decision (confirmed by his own personal admission) to just say frick star wars lore and frick TFA, I'm just going to make whatever the hell movie I feel like and throw it out there.

I could go on rightfully nitpicking the horrendous character decisions and pathetic script writing and all of the nerdy star wars issues but that's a pretty good broad description of why the movie is a pile of shite.

This post was edited on 12/19/17 at 11:33 am